Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chubby mechanic named Walter ("Wal") Hannington was so useful to the British Government as a highly-skilled armaments tooler in 1914 that he was exempted from active army duty. It would have saved His Majesty's Government a pack of trouble in the past 20 years if Wal had gone to France and stopped a German bullet...
...ancient sport of bearbaiting consisted of setting dogs on a chained bruin. For the last five years Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s President Wendell Willkie, who looks rather like an amiable grizzly, has been chained by the competition of Federal utility projects and baited by the TVA pack of David Lilienthal...
Then they stopped, like a mongrel dog pack, and began fighting among themselves. Anarchist hated Communist almost as much as he hated Rebel. Trotskyist bickered with Stalinist. Good bourgeoisie were horrified at the confiscation of private property. The Catalan autonomists resented even the least suggestion from Madrid...
...speed skaters do not show up well in European competition. At the 1936 Olympics, Norway made a clean sweep of the four speed-skating events. American skaters attribute this to lack of experience in the European (and Olympic) method of racing. In U. S., skaters race in a pack; the first man over the line wins. In Europe, there is no jockeying for position, no jamming at the turns. Skaters race individually; the man who covers the distance in the fastest time wins...
...passengers and a steward were lost during the ten hours that the survivors, five of them women, clung precariously to seat-pack life preservers. Toward midnight, the Standard Oil tanker Esso Baytown, one of many craft searching by sea and air, picked them up, took them to New York...